Learn about France’s efforts to advance education, remembrance, and research on the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma.
Learn about France’s efforts to advance education, remembrance, and research on the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma.
Joined the IHRA
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
Isabelle Rome (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs) – Head of Delegation
Thomas Piana (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs) – Deputy Head of Delegation
Bruno Boyer (Mémorial de la Shoah) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Dominique Trimbur (Foundation for the Remembrance of the Shoah) – Academic Working Group
Christian Melka (Fondation du Camp des Milles)
Michal Chojak (Yahad-In Unum) – Academic Working Group
Mattéo Cian (Yahad-In Unum)
Philippe Mosse (Fondation du Camp des Milles) – Education Working Group
Georges Mayer (Convoi 77) – Education Working Group
Lena Casiez (Fondation du Camp des Milles) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Alexandre Nugues-Bourchat (Fondation du Camps des Milles) – Education Working Group
France’s accession to the IHRA offered an opportunity to create a network of national Holocaust experts, ensuring more efficient sharing of information between institutions and wider dissemination of activities in the areas of Holocaust teaching, research and remembrance. These discussions have also laid the foundation for enhanced educational work and a closer partnership between the authorities and the various remembrance sites in France. This, in turn, has formalized ties through an international network which has been enriched over the years, thus preventing educational and memorial activities from becoming nothing more than rituals.
In January 2023, the French Government presented an action plan against antisemitism.
A conscientious education of the truth is one of the most effective ways of countering Holocaust distortion. Teachers are central to this effort.
Recent scholarship has allowed for international experts to approach a consensus on life and death in the Jasenovac camp complex, which will form the focus of an upcoming online conference, Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalized Destruction, to be held on 15–17 December 2021.
L’Alliance internationale pour la mémoire de l’Holocauste (IHRA) rassemble des gouvernements et des experts dans le but de renforcer et de promouvoir l’éducation, le travail de mémoire et la recherche sur l’Holocauste et de mettre en œuvre les engagements de la déclaration de Stockholm de 2000.
Bénéficiant de l’expertise de délégués de plus de 30 pays membres, les Recommandations de l’IHRA pour l’enseignement et l’étude de la Shoah ont pour objectif de fournir aux responsables politiques, aux professionnels et aux enseignants une base qui les aide à.